On May 20, we launched the first-ever Google Maps Platform Awards to celebrate 20 years of mapping innovation and highlight the creative, impactful experiences developers have built with our products. The response from the community has been incredible, with over 400+ submissions from around the world showcasing just how far developers can push what’s possible with maps and data. We’re grateful to everyone who participated, including the incredible number of participants, and the judges and fans who helped determine this year’s winners.
The following winners represent the very best of what our community can achieve, demonstrating creativity, technical mastery, and real-world impact. Join us in celebrating the work of these community members, who inspire us with the way they use Google Maps Platform to innovate, solve problems and inspire change.
Google Maps Platform Awards | Announcing the Winners
Grand Prize
Innobrix innercity housing development example
Innobrix: The 3D AEC configuration platform
Innobrix is a web-based 3D configuration platform designed for the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. It allows property developers, architects, municipalities, and homebuyers to view and customize housing developments on an interactive plot map. Using Google 3D Map Tiles and the Geocoding API, Innobrix places designs in real-world context, showing the exact parcel location, nearby infrastructure, orientation, and landmarks. Users can select a plot, configure housing layouts and styles, and visualize the results in detailed 3D or even in virtual reality. By combining BIM data with Google Maps, Innobrix makes it easier for stakeholders to understand how new buildings will fit into their actual surroundings and to collaborate more effectively on design decisions.
Google Maps Platform Awards | Announcing the Fan Favorites and Honorable Mentions
Best of Travel
Roamly - Start screen
First Place: Roamly
Roamly is a demo travel app that uses AI and Google Maps Platform to create personalized trip itineraries. Users can search for hotels, explore nearby attractions, and generate custom walking routes, with interactive 3D maps and AI-powered recommendations enhancing the experience.
Second Place: SafeRoute Pune – Women's Safety Route Mapping System
An AI-powered safety-first navigation web app that helps women in Pune choose the safest walking routes using Google Maps data, safety zones, and real-time risk analysis.
Top Fan Vote: Navi meet
Finds a dynamic merge point (not just a midpoint) based on where public and private transport routes naturally converge, offering fair and efficient meetup spots for all participants.
Best of Sustainability
TraceMark Flow Congestion Dashboard
First Place: TraceMark Flow
TraceMark Flow is a traffic monitoring and insights platform that helps cities and transport organizations manage congestion and improve sustainability. Using Google Maps Platform data along with AI and cloud analytics, it delivers real-time traffic intelligence through dashboards and APIs, making it easier to track flow, detect disruptions, and plan resilient urban mobility.
Second Place: ReliefMap
A mobile-first app that helps disaster victims quickly find nearby resources like shelter, food, medical aid, and more, all through an interactive map.
Top Fan Vote: GEOSTORM
A web platform that visualizes real-time climate data like temperature, emissions, and sea level rise to make global trends accessible to the public.
Best of Retail
POIs data in SmartMarket
First Place; Top Fan Vote: SmartMarket
SmartMarket is an AI-powered location intelligence platform that helps businesses make smarter decisions about site selection and market expansion. Built on Google Maps Platform services like geocoding, traffic data, and Places insights, it delivers predictive analysis and catchment modeling to make geospatial data accessible for strategy, marketing, and operations teams.
Second Place: MagiCart
A smart grocery assistant that uses AI and Google Maps to find the cheapest options, plan efficient routes, and support healthier shopping.
Best of Real Estate
Canibuild demo
First Place: Canibuild
Canibuild is a web platform that helps builders, councils, and property owners instantly assess whether a project can be built on a specific lot. Using Google Maps Platform for geocoding, elevation, and 3D visualization, it turns weeks of manual checks into minutes, making planning approvals and property decisions faster and easier.
Second Place: properai
Allows real estate agents to place properties on a real-world 3D map, and in just three minutes, create visuals that show exact location, window orientation, and surrounding landscape.
Top Fan Vote: Construction and city planning - Sofia, Bulgaria
An interactive map that uses Google’s 3D tiles to show planned buildings, letting citizens visualize future development and access related planning documents.
Best of Immersive
Hiking trails of Mount Fuji in Daryaft
First Place: Daryaft
Daryaft is an interactive travel guide that brings Mount Fuji’s trails and surroundings to life in 3D. Using Google Maps Platform for visualization and places data, it lets users scroll through the site to explore paths, view ratings, and discover the best spots to experience the mountain.
Second Place: Wooorld
A social VR platform that uses Google Earth’s 3D and Street View data to let people explore cities and landmarks together in real-time.
Top Fan Vote: Alerto – Emergency Response App
An emergency app that uses Google Maps to share a user’s location and connect them with the nearest rescuer in real time.
Best of Delivery and Ride Sharing
OVO Route Planner
First Place: OVO Route Planner
OVO Route Planner is a delivery management system that optimizes same-day and next-day cargo bike deliveries. Using Google Maps Platform for route optimization, navigation, and live updates, it helps operations teams plan efficiently while enabling drivers to follow routes, track progress, and record proof of delivery. This supports OVO’s goal of sustainable, carbon-free logistics.
Second Place: Master Planner
A fleet management tool that uses Google Maps to quickly optimize delivery routes, reducing costs, time, and emissions.
Top Fan Vote: Pigeon
Maps city infrastructure issues in 3D using phone calls, helping rideshare, delivery, and city services avoid disruptions through AI-powered alerts and real-time coordination.
Best of Finance
GeoScope Credit demo
First Place; Top Fan Vote: GeoScope
GeoScope is a web app that creates location-based credit scores for small businesses. Using Google Maps APIs for geocoding, places, directions, and interactive mapping, it calculates a GeoScore that reflects factors like foot traffic, safety, transit access, and competition. This helps small retailers in regions such as Latin America, Africa, and South Asia demonstrate business potential even without traditional credit histories.
Second Place: Atlas Local
A web app that uses Google Maps Environment APIs to score locations and neighborhoods on solar potential, air quality, and pollen levels.
Best of Developer Community
JavaScript library for frontend web applications
First Place: Places (New) Autocomplete - JavaScript Library
Places (New) Autocomplete JavaScript Library is an open-source project that integrates with the Google Maps Places API to provide customizable address autocomplete and place details in web applications. It offers lightweight libraries for multiple frameworks and has already been deployed on high-traffic sites, helping organizations reduce costs while giving developers a flexible toolkit for building with Google Maps.
Second Place: Weather Forecast Web
A demo app that uses Google Maps Platform and the Weather API to show current, historical, and future weather at a user’s location by combining geocoding with dynamic map displays.
Top Fan Vote: Digitizing Property Tax Systems with Google Maps
A project in the form of a GIS platform for Anambra State that uses Google Maps and Earth Engine to map and classify properties, link images and tax data, and improve revenue collection.
Best of Art of the Map
Custom tooltips in The Signal Remains
First Place: The Signal Remains
The Signal Remains is an interactive map that retraces U2’s world tours from 1978 to 1998, using custom-styled Google Maps to reflect the cultural and political atmosphere of each era. Tour stops are interactive and paired with AI-generated historical context, turning the band’s journeys into a dynamic narrative that blends geography, history, and music.
Second Place: Mapping 19th Century Jewish Charity in New York
An interactive historical map tracing the divide between poverty and philanthropy in immigrant-era Manhattan, built on Google Maps Platform from a forgotten 1899 charity ledger.
Top Fan Vote: Sensor Technologies for Determining Cyclist Power Output
A project that analyzes three cycling power meters, including a smartphone-based option, to compare their accuracy and explore low-cost alternatives for training.
Best of AI
Dispatch console route screen in Dispatch AI
First Place: DispatchAI
DispatchAI is an AI-powered assistant for last-mile delivery that uses Google Maps APIs to keep routes efficient and adaptive in real time. It understands issues like traffic delays or address changes in plain language, triggers the right workflows automatically, and provides live tracking and reoptimization across mobile, web, and chatbot interfaces to keep deliveries on track.
Second Place: Aitinerary with AI
A smart, AI-powered travel planner that creates immersive, personalized itineraries using Google Maps 3D and Gemini AI, turning exploration into a visual storytelling experience.
Top Fan Vote: ZenDrive
IoT and Google Maps Integrated Cognitive Fatigue Detection Using EMG Signals and Computer Vision.
Honorable Mentions
Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to all the participants. We appreciate your enthusiasm and dedication to using Google Maps Platform to create and innovate. Learn more about the winning projects on the Google Maps Platforms Awards page, and check out all the amazing projects submitted in the gallery.
